In
his speech following the recent Oregon shootings, Barack Obama hinted
that he favors gun confiscation in the United States and that he would
like to see America follow the examples of Australia and Great Britain.

Breitbart.com
reports, “When President Obama spoke in reaction to the heinous
October 1 attack on Umpqua Community College, he went beyond his usual
calls for more gun control and suggested instead that America consider
following the path blazed by Australia and Great Britain.

“In
the mid-1990s Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were
virtually complete bans on firearm possession.

“Obama
referenced the bans thus:

“‘We
know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have
been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends
of ours, allies of ours--Great Britain, Australia, countries like
ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.’”

And
just a few days ago, Breitbart also reported, “The White House
confirmed that President Obama was preparing a series of executive
actions on gun control.”

So,
will this “Gun-Grabber-In-Chief” attempt to confiscate
the arms of the American people via Executive Order? If he did, I
doubt that the American people would get much assistance from the
pantywaist Republican Congress. But I know I am speaking for tens
of millions of us when I say that we red-blooded Americans will NEVER
surrender our arms. NEVER! This is NOT Australia or Great Britain.

If
Obama wants to fire another “shot heard ’round the world,”
he will follow the example of the British Crown, who, on April 19,
1775, issued an order to seize the arms of the colonists. Our patriot
forebears stood on Lexington Green and at Concord Bridge on that eventful
morning and, in essence, said the same thing that Spartan King Leonidas
said to Persian King Xerxes at the Battle of Thermopylae. When told
to surrender their arms, they said: MOLON LABE, meaning, “Come
and take them.”

A
pantywaist, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered Republican Congress notwithstanding,
the blood of our Colonial Patriots still flows hot in the veins of
millions of us, and should this president (or any president) attempt
to confiscate our arms, the answer is still the same: MOLON LABE,
Mr. Obama.

Think
of the hypocrisy of this administration. According to the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. government is the
biggest exporter of arms and munitions in the entire world. (Look
it up for yourself.) This government supplies some of the most powerful
and sophisticated weaponry to just about any two-bit dictator or thug
regime on the planet. It even supplies arms and munitions to the Islamic
terrorist groups Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Al Nusra.

Yet
Obama seems intent on eviscerating the means of self-defense from
the citizens of the United States. He wants us to be disarmed. Of
course, Obama is the most protected man in the world. He has more
guns protecting him than any other single individual on the planet.
And he will have armed Secret Service protection for the rest of his
life. So, it’s okay for guns to protect HIM, but not US.

I
say again: MOLON LABE, Mr. Obama.

Professor
John Lott’s exhaustive research has proven beyond all doubt
to ANYONE who has a rational and honest mind that MORE GUNS EQUALS
LESS CRIME. And, remember, Mr. Lott began his research with an anti-gun
bias--but his research convinced him otherwise. Today, he is a staunch
defender of the right to keep and bear arms. The empirical data is
unassailable: the absence of guns INCREASES crime, while the presence
of guns, DECREASES crime.

Plus,
it appears that the Oregon college in which the recent shootings took
place had gone against Oregon State law--which allows for students
with CCW permits to carry on campus. But UCC had a school policy FORBIDDING
firearms on campus. If one wants to start placing blame beyond the
actual shooter, look no further than the administration of UCC that
forbade its students from defending themselves. The blood of the innocent
victims in that tragedy is at least partially on the hands of that
college administration.

Furthermore,
for at least a half-century now, America’s schools and colleges
have taught that man is nothing more than an evolved ape. Our children
are taught that there are no moral absolutes. Christian morality has
been all but expelled from America’s public educational institutions.
So, why should we be surprised when our young people start behaving
like amoral animals?

Beyond
that, look at how many of these young shooters are the products of
fatherless homes.

And,
again, look at how so many of our churches are nothing more than glorified
social clubs or entertainment centers. Not only is Christian morality
not being taught in our schools, it’s not even being taught
in many of our homes and churches.

We
are not dealing with a gun issue; we are dealing with a heart issue.
And government is completely incapable of dealing with heart issues.
Men have been killing their fellow man since Cain killed Abel--and
they haven’t needed guns to do it. But since people with evil
hearts now use guns to kill, it is obligatory that people with pure
hearts have guns in their possession to be able to defend themselves
from people with evil hearts.

And
dare I even mention the possibility that at least some of these killers
could be “Manchurian Candidates”? Oh, I know, that is
paranoid conspiracy talk. Our government would NEVER do such a thing,
right?

I
guess we are supposed to forget the fact that our government did indeed
spend $10 million (roughly $87.5 million adjusted for inflation) recruiting
former Nazi scientists to perform behavior-modification experiments
on American citizens (prisoners, hospital patients, military personnel,
etc.) in a project called “Operation Paperclip” (also
known as MKUltra).

In
these “experiments,” narcotic, chemical, and biological
agents were employed--as well as sleep deprivation, psychological
techniques, electroshock, radiation, hypnotism, and various other
forms of torture. Some 86 universities or institutions participated
in the experiments. Physicians, toxicologists, mental therapists,
etc., also assisted in the program.

But
we are supposed to believe that the federal government would NEVER
repeat such activity. Yeah, right!

Regardless
of what actually causes someone to go on a murderous rampage, it is
an absolute fact that there would be countless more victims without
the presence of a firearm.

Amazingly,
the national news media and politicians like Barack Obama completely
ignore the fact that law-abiding citizens use a firearm to defend
themselves against criminal activity over ­­­2.5 million
times EACH YEAR. That equates to about 6,850 times A DAY. Plus, women
use a firearm to defend themselves against sexual assault some 200,000
times each year.

But
here is what most everyone misses: self-defense is not merely a Bill
of Rights issue; it is a NATURAL RIGHT issue. Self-defense is more
than a right: it is a duty given us at creation. The Second Amendment
does not GRANT us the right of self-defense; it merely PROTECTS the
right that was given to us by our Creator. In truth, men have a Natural
right of self-defense with or without government approbation. Our
colonial forebears astutely recognized and aptly applied this divine
duty BEFORE there was such a thing as the Second Amendment. However,
we can all thank God that America’s founders were sagacious
enough to include this sacred responsibility in our Bill of Rights.
That’s something countries such as Australia and Great Britain
didn’t do. And that’s why their people have allowed themselves
to be disarmed today.

And
whether anyone wants to admit it or not, the ONLY reason the tyrannical
machinations of the globalists have not already subjugated the western
world is because the American people are yet a well-armed citizenry.
Should the American people ever be disarmed, another Dark Ages of
tyranny and oppression would soon engulf the entire western world.

Ladies
and gentlemen, our very survival depends on an armed populace. So,
why aren’t America’s pastors and churches shouting this
from the pulpits? Why are they so timid and cowardly? Or are they
spiritually ignorant? Or are they deliberately deceiving their flocks?
Only God knows their hearts. One thing is sure: our pastors are mostly
AWOL in defending the Natural right of self-defense in this country.

For
example, ChristianNewsWire.com recently covered a press release from
the Rev. Rob Schenck. It said:

“In
a Facebook post last Friday, Tenn. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey responded to
the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon by saying
that ‘fellow Christians’ should consider getting a handgun
carry permit to protect themselves. Ramsey provided a link on how
to obtain a handgun permit at the end of his posting. Rev. Rob Schenck,
president of the National Clergy Council and chairman of the Evangelical
Church Alliance, is a minister to top government officials in Washington,
D.C. and is the subject of a new documentary addressing gun violence,
The Armor of Light, directed by Abigail E. Disney, opening in theaters
nationwide on Oct. 30. Schenck says more guns is not the answer.”

Sorry,
Rev. Schenck, more guns IS the answer--at least more peaceful, law-abiding
people carrying guns--as John Lott’s exhaustive research unequivocally
proves. Maybe Rev. Schenck is advising Barack Obama and other gun
grabbers in Washington, D.C., which may further explain the problem.

And
since Mr. Schenck is promoting a film that apparently impugns the
importance of the Second Amendment, I would suggest that readers purchase
James Jaeger’s excellent film that ably demonstrates the absolute
necessity of an armed citizenry. The film is entitled “MOLON
LABE: How The Second Amendment Guarantees America’s Freedom.”
I am proud to be featured in this film.

Rev.
Schenck went on to say, “The best people to give moral advice
on guns or any other issue are church leaders, and they've been conspicuously
silent on the question of Christians arming up in fear. I appeal to
pastors and other church leaders to speak out clearly, prayerfully,
and biblically on the Christ-like approach to guns, fear, and even
love of enemy. I appeal to Christians not to look to secular sources
for their most important moral decisions. We must turn to God in prayer,
search the Scriptures for wisdom, and look to Christ as our only model
for dealing with evil. Pastors can help us find a better way in these
trying times; it's time for them to do so.”

So,
the next time a Christian family is being hacked to death by drug-crazed
killers or a Christian woman is being brutally raped or a Christian
man is being violently accosted, they are supposed to “turn
to God in prayer” and “search the Scriptures for wisdom,”
Mr. Schenck?

I’m
sorry, Rev. Schenck, when that violent gang begins attacking my family,
they will be met with more than a prayer and a Bible: they will be
met with the slug from a .45 pistol--and if I’m able to get
to it, with 00 Buckshot from a 12 gauge shotgun.

But,
unfortunately, Rev. Schenck seems to speak for the majority of America’s
pastors and churches. All over the country, pastors are teaching their
people to be good little slaves and turn in their guns if government
should require it--just like pastors did in Nazi Germany.

And,
by the way, I seem to recall that Jesus didn’t just “pray
and search the Scriptures” when he confronted those moneychangers.
He took a whip and beat the living tar out of them. He also bluntly
instructed His disciples to buy a sword--even if they had to sell
clothes in order to obtain the money to make the purchase. (Luke 22:36)
In this passage, Jesus made the sword a higher priority than clothing.
That certainly sounds to me like Jesus affirmed the principle that
more guns (a Roman sword being the First Century equivalent) IS the
answer.

And,
for that matter, I HAVE “searched the Scriptures for wisdom,”
Mr. Schenck: that’s how my Christian attorney son and I came
to write a book entitled “To Keep or Not To Keep: Why Christians
Should Not Give Up Their Guns.”

In
“To Keep or Not To Keep,” we prove from the Scriptures
that self-defense is a God-given duty--a Natural right--and that nowhere
does the Bible teach Christians to surrender their means of self-defense
to any civil government. Furthermore, I suggest that any Christian
who attends a church where the pastor urges his flock to surrender
their guns IMMEDIATELY leave that church and find a church that has
a Biblical pastor.

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With
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of millions of us will respond as did our Christian forebears: MOLON
LABE, Mr. Obama.

Chuck Baldwin is a syndicated
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In
his speech following the recent Oregon shootings, Barack Obama hinted
that he favors gun confiscation in the United States and that he would
like to see America follow the examples of Australia and Great Britain.